The 2020 United States presidential election in New Hampshire was held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election in which all 50 states and the

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participated.

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voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote, pitting the Republican Party's nominees, incumbent President

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and

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Mike Pence, against the Democratic Party's nominees, former Vice President Joe Biden and his running mate, Senator

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. New Hampshire has four electoral votes in the Electoral College. New Hampshire is by far the most

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state in

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, and its population has a strong disdain for

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, historically giving Republicans an edge in its state office elections. However, like the rest of the region, it is very

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on social issues like

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and gay rights, and thus the Democratic Party has dominated in its federal elections in recent years. Although the state came extremely close to voting for Trump in 2016, polls throughout the 2020 campaign showed a clear Biden lead, and prior to election day, all 14 news organizations considered New Hampshire a state that Biden was heavily favored to win. Trump became the third consecutive incumbent Republican to lose New Hampshire as well as the first ever Republican to have held office without winning the state in an election. Per exit polls by the

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, Biden prevailed in the state by garnering 58% of

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, and 69% of unmarried women. Biden carried voters prioritizing

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with 73% campaigning on protecting

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for

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s, a resonant issue in a state plagued by the

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. Biden flipped the counties of Carroll, Hillsborough, Rockingham, and Sullivan, of which Hillsborough (which houses the state's largest city of

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) and Sullivan had voted for

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twice before switching to Trump in

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, into the Democratic column. Biden also significantly expanded

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's 2016 lead of 2,736 votes (0.37%) to 59,267 votes (7.35%). Corresponding Democratic victories in the Senate election and both House elections reaffirmed the Democrats' strength in what used to be a heavily contested battleground. Contrary to earlier projections however, New Hampshire Republicans took control of both the executive and legislative branches of the New Hampshire government. Republicans flipped the previously Democrat-held New Hampshire state Senate and House of Representatives. Republicans also gained control of the state’s Executive Council, and Republican Gov. Chris Sununu was reelected for a third term with 65% of the vote. Biden's best margin was in the socially liberal

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, which had overwhelmingly favored Bernie Sanders in the

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, while Trump's strength came in the rural Great North Woods Region. Biden was the first Democrat to ever win the White House without Coös County.

Primary elections

The New Hampshire primary, traditionally the first, was held on February 11, 2020, roughly a week after the

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Republican primary

The New Hampshire Republican primary took place on February 11, 2020. Incumbent president

won the Republican primary with 85.6 percent of the vote, clinching all of the state's 22 pledged delegates to the

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Democratic primary

Bernie Sanders won the Democratic primary with 25.6 percent of the vote, ahead of second-place Pete Buttigieg, who received 24.3 percent of the vote. Both Sanders and Buttigieg received nine delegates to the

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. Amy Klobuchar finished in third place with 19.7 percent of the vote and earned six delegates.

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and Joe Biden finished in fourth and fifth place, respectively, and each received zero delegates.

Libertarian primary

General election

Final predictions

Polling

Graphical summary

Aggregate polls

Polls

Donald Trump vs. Bernie Sanders Donald Trump vs. Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump vs. Michael Bloomberg Donald Trump vs. Pete Buttigieg Donald Trump vs. Andrew Yang Donald Trump vs. Cory Booker Donald Trump vs. Kamala Harris Donald Trump vs. Beto O'Rourke with Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, and Howard Schultz with Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and Howard Schultz with John Kasich and Joe Biden with John Kasich and Elizabeth Warren with Donald Trump and generic Democrat with Donald Trump, generic Democrat, and generic third party with Donald Trump and Generic Opponent

Results

By county

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

* Carroll (largest municipality: Conway) * Hillsborough (largest municipality:

) * Rockingham (largest municipality: Derry) * Sullivan (largest municipality: Claremont)

By congressional district

Notes

;Partisan clients

References

External links

* * * (state affiliate of the U.S. League of Women Voters) * {{Elections in New Hampshire footer

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